Food Service Contractors · California

Sodexo at Applied Materials Bowers Cafe

Santa Clara, CA · ~46 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sodexo at Applied Materials Bowers Cafe runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food Service Contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Sodexo at Applied Materials Bowers Cafe: 4.5 TCR = 151% of Food Service Contractors BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sodexo at Applied Materials Bowers Cafe safety composite

Sodexo at Applied Materials Bowers Cafe scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Sodexo at Applied Materials Bowers Cafe: 2.0 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.54× in 2024

Sodexo at Applied Materials Bowers Cafe's TCR rose 4.9 from 2.0 in 2023 to 7.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Santa Clara, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 151% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #290/586
  • PHOTO Syracuse Academy Cha…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Syracuse Academy Charter (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sodexo at Applied Materials Bowers Cafe in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Sodexo at Applied Materials Bowers Cafe averages 4.5 TCR (151% of the Food Service Contractors BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Sodexo at Applied Materials Bowers Cafe TCR series: 2023=2 · 2024=7 · BLS 3.0

Where Sodexo at Applied Materials Bowers Cafe falls in its industry

6,952 Food Service Contractors establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #290 safest of 586 Food Service Contractors employers in California.

Sodexo at Applied Materials Bowers Cafe (46 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sodexo at Applied Materials Bowers Cafe
Sodexo at Applied Materials Bowers Cafe (46 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Sodexo at Applied Materials Bowers Cafe has more employees than the Food Service Contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 7.0 7.0 1 0 0
2023 2.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · CA · Santa Clara

6,952 Food Service Contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 332 employers in Santa Clara, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Syracuse Academy Charter 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAYO CLINIC FLORIDA 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR RU Market Place RD 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR UA Dulles Club C4 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Matteoli Brothers 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE IMR Farms-San Miguel 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&G Berry Farms 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pitigliano Farm Services, Inc. 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Campus 6,222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pure Storage 5,595 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02120751 3,887 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0206-02620751 3,154 FTE
NAT-TCR Symphony at Mentor 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR AVON 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyatt Regency Boston Harbor 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Qualicoat Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Infirmary Cancer Care 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon DSP 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wesley Bradley Park 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn 46 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.